The Wende Museum’s galleries are closed this weekend, April 17-19, for exhibition turnover and will reopen Saturday, April 25.
The opening celebration will bring together a new exhibition and new guardhouse installation with a live performance shaped by a recent censorship controversy.
This exciting opening will inaugurate Anton Roland Laub: Mobile Churches in Ceaușescu’s Bucharest, a photographic and archival study of churches lifted, relocated, and concealed under Romania’s late socialist regime, and Ivana Dama: Breathing Alarms, an installation in the Wende’s East German guardhouse focused on surveillance, atmosphere, and the politics of breath.
The afternoon will also feature the premiere of Elana Mann and Sharon Chohi Kim: Whirlwinds, Tornadoes, Basement, a live performance centered on voice, listening, and collective expression. A related installation was recently removed from Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art after being deemed “political in nature,” prompting artist withdrawals and the exhibition’s closure. The performance will take place in the A-Frame Theater at 3 pm.
Presented here in full, the performance confronts the conditions under which art is allowed to speak.
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